Web 2.0: Members only please.

Technology has improved our lives. Technological advances spawned the Industrial Revolution, sped up the assembly line, allowed us to heat up our food in less than a minute and now, now its democratizing our communication. Or so some say.

Apparently this democratization is only happening if you weren't already on the Who's Who among the Intellectually elite (so sayeth Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing). If you are not among the intellectual elite, or if you haven't risen through the ranks of the traditional mass media,why then you are one of "those people" the kind who...well quite frankly one of those people for whom those tags on pillows can't be removed and for whom hairdryers come with special instructions to not use around water. You, dear reader, are uneducated and your mediocre user generated content apparently does nothing more than spread your mediocrity (if I understand the message correctly), and you are using the Internet to spread this, effectively ruining the years of hard work the intellectually elite leaders in our society have invested in improving their minds so they can improve ours.

How dare you spread your dumbness around to others (and by you I mean myself as well). How dare you assume to democratize intellectual authority through such sites as Wikipedia and worse of all, how dare you use Web 2.0 to publish your unrecognized and unsupported and unsubstantiated ideas out there for others to evaluate and dare I say learn from. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Just because you have the right to bare arms doesn't mean you should. Just because you have the right and the technology (Web 2.0, social media, etc) to exercise speech and thought doesn't mean you should muck up the current establishment with thoughts and ideas you've developed after browsing through the thoughts and ideas of others like yourself. Shame on you for acquiring and distributing ideas that some misinterpret as knowledge (and for free no less!).